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Plate 55. — Parinarium laurinum : a flowering branch, of trie 

 natural size. Fig. 1. Stipules, and base of a leaf, showing the glands. 

 2. Flower-bud, with the bract and two bractlets. 3. An opening 

 flower, with the bractlets. 4. Diagram of the flower, with the bract 

 and bractlets. 5. A petal, from Fig. 3. 6. A flower from which the 

 petals have fallen. 7. Anthers. 8. Vertical section of the calyx, 

 ovary, &c. 9. Longitudinal section through the partition. — All the 

 details enlarged. 



2. HIRTELLA, Linn. 



1. HlRTELLA OBLONGIFOLIA, DC. 



Hab. Brazil, near Rio Janeiro. (Perhaps a variety of H. Ameri- 

 cana.) The flowers are tetrandrous. 



There is besides a branchlet of a Chrysobalanaceous plant, from the 

 Organ Mountains, near Rio Janeiro, probably a Licania, which I 

 cannot identify, and the forming flower-buds are too young for inves- 

 tigation. 



